Sparing knuckles
(EDITOR'S NOTE: I have recently been impressed with the depth of high school thought as evidenced in the Wichita South Southerner. High school editorial pages have come a long way from the "school spirit" days.-M. S.)
From The Wichita South Southerner
By a vote of 70 to 15 on the floor of the Senate recently, the 5th amendment to the constitution was virtually destroyed.
This vote allowed the passage of a dangerous provision of the new.federal narcotics bill just passed by the Senate.
Briefly, this bill would, in its entirety:
Ims provision is part of a bill which has been labeled "the no-knock" bill. The no-knock bill would permit surprise, no-knock, drug raids by the police.
open wide the door to discrimination by creating more discrepancies than there already are
more discrepancies than there already are in the trials and basic rights of Americans.
—violate the 5th amendment guarantee against involuntary, self, incrimination
—violate the 4th amendment prohibition of unreasonable search and seizures.
endanger the basic rights of all Americans and dissolve and make invalid many ideas that were formulated by and deemed worthy enough by our founding fathers so that a war was fought over these basic concepts.
The common reaction would seem to be "as long as I obey the law, this no-knock bill won't affect me."
But it already has.
For in allowing the dissolution of these rights of criminals, some of the most basic rights of all Americans have been revoked.
Carla Roberts
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
An All-American college newspaper
Kansan Telephone Numbers
Kansan Telephone Numbers
Newsroom—UN 4-3646 Business Office—UN 4-4358
Published at the University of Kansas daily during the academic year except
for holidays. Second class postage paid at Lawrence, KS. 66044. Accommodations,
goods, services and employment advertised offered to all students without
admission. Third class postage paid at Lawrence, KS. 66044. Accommodations,
necessarily those of the University of Kansas or the State Board of Regents.
Nova Advisor James W. Murray
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor Ken Peterson
Campus Editor Ted Iliff
News Editor Joe Bullard
Editorial Editors Mike Shearer, Joe Naea, Monroe Dodd
Spotlight Editors Bruce Carnahan, Steve Shiver
Makeup Editors Charlie Cape, George Wilkens
Wire Editor Ken Cummins
Women's Page Editors Linda Loyd, Carolyn Bowers
Arts and Reviews Editors Geneleia Richards, Rich Geary
Assistants News Editors Wendell Phillips, Nik Walker
Assistant News Editors Donna Shraader, Cass Sexson, Robin Stewart
Photographers Ron Bishop, Bryce Bernstein, Randy Lefflingwell
BUSINESS STAFF
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Advisor .. Mel Adams
Business Manager Jerry Bottenfield
Assistant Business Manager Mike Banks
Advertising Managers Larry Cates, Joanne Bos
National Advertising Manager Oscar Bassinson
Classified Searcher Neil Bradley
Member Associated Collegiate Press
hearing voices—
REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Educational Advertising Services A DIVISION OF READER'S DIGEST SALES & SERVICES, INC. 360 Lexington Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017
On Hays, Shultz, Israel...
To the editor:
Now that I am enrolled in an "institution of higher learning," I am told the opposite. And this time my teachers are representatives of the State government.
When I was younger, my parents taught me to be tolerant and open-minded. They taught me not to judge others, because there is no absolute assurance that at any time my judgment will be guaranteed 100 per cent correct.
The UDK has given extensive coverage to the actions and opinions of Senator Shultz. And in each article that I read, I tried to approach it with an open mind, with an attempt to see his point of view. While I often disagreed with his thinking, I was able, in many cases, to understand his reasoning. But the latest statement by Mr. Shultz and one of his associates defies any attempt at logical reasoning on my part to arrive at comprehension of what has been said.
Tucked away on the last page of the Kansan Friday, was the notice that "Shultz, a consistent critic of student protesters at the University, urged the Kansas Bar Association to disbar professor Lawrence Velel, who, he said, denounced Judge Julius Hoffman before a crowd of students in front of the KU Law School Tuesday." If the article had ended here, I do not think I would have been as flabbergasted as I was when I read on. Mr. Shultz's colleague, Senator Lester Arvin emphatically states, "If this continues, I for one am going to be forced to vote against appropriations for higher education." And Senator Shultz has previously made statements along the same line.
I can only conclude by quoting Professor Ralph Perry in the introduction to the Liberal Arts and Sciences Catalogue.
If Senator Arvin feels that Professor Velvel is employed by the University to mouth the pontific proclamations of the established society, if he feels that it is the purpose of a University to program the students with the "unadulterated" facts, allowing no room for individual thought, if he feels that the largest educational institution in the state is to be denied the funds to educate because one group of men have the courage to say what they believe, then I can only ask, "Where did my parents go wrong?" Because they taught me to be tolerant of other's opinions, and not to condemn an entire institution on the basis of original, individual, logical thought.
"Education is liberal in so far as it invites and qualifies men to choose deeply and fundamentally, to choose ends as well as means, to choose remote as well as immediate ends, to choose from many rather than from few possibilities. Liberal education, so construed, makes successive generations of men aware of the widest range of possibilities by the discovery of new possibilities forgotten. It does so in order that men may choose with the utmost amplitude of freedom—in order that their lives may be filled to the maximum extent by what they thoughtfully and wittingly choose them to be. . .."
Senators Shultz and Arvin, as parents you emphasize the importance of being well rounded and open-minded. Please give us that chance.
Walt Karniski
Prairie Village
Sophomore
* *
To the editor:
I have three comments about your recent column concerning the questionnaire we used to use.
Dear Mr. Shearer:
1. As soon as I learned of its existence, I had its use stopped. It would have been easy for you to have ascertained that fact. Good journalism would seem to me to have required you to check rather than imply that it was still in use.
3. Before you condemn an entire college for what I agree was a mistake, why don't you visit us and find out that stereotypes don't really make very good journalism?
To the editor:
2. "Criteria" is the plural of "criterion". Do sophisticated journalists such as you not need to have a command of English?
John W. Gustad President, Fort Hays Kansas State College
The editorial by Mr. Naas entitled "Trigger fingers" is, at best, very naive.
To discuss the Israeli bombing raids against military targets near Cairo without mention of the daily artillery exchanges along the Suez Canal is to present only half the picture, a policy Mr. Naas himself condemned.
The UN chief observer in the Sinai, General Odd Bull, has repeatedly reported that the exchanges on the canal have been started by the Egyptians. This is public record. The casualty toll for Israel is 14 dead per week which when adjusted to the U.S. population would correspond to 1,800 U.S. casualties per week. This is an unacceptable situation for Israel, as it would be for the U.S. Their response has been the bombings of military targets in Egypt—probably not the response Egyptian or Russian leaders envisioned. Consequently, it is the war situation that precipitated the accident at the metal works factory. Israel has many times publicly resolved to stop the bombings as soon as Egypt adhers to a cease fire on the canal. Nasser cannot dictate his style of war.
Sidney Fiarman Research Associate
**\* \* \***
To the editor:
Professor Howard Kahane's letter to the editor (UDK, Feb. 20) is typical of the inconsistent double-standard position which many "anti-opression" groups in this country "used to take" with regard to the Palestinian Problem. I say "used to take" because the chain of events since the 1967 war has exposed the real identity of World Zionism and its
imperialistic, racist, and expansionistic base—Israel. Zionist propaganda is no longer able to present Israel to the world as the "peace seeking little country surrounded by 90 millions of aggressive Arabs," thereby transforming the real problem of the whole crisis—The Palestinian Problem—into a refugee problem, for the UN to work out. Many Arab puppet kings and rulers have also used the Zionist transformation to suit their own personal purposes.
The emergence of the armed Palestinian resistance has put into focus the only possible solution for a long lasting peace in Palestine—The Palestinian Democratic State. Its basic principles are:
1. Abolition of the Zionist entity in Palestine (this does not mean the removal of Jews from Palestine) and replacing it with a secular democratic state open to all, Christians, Moslems, and Jews, alike.
2. Acceptance of the right of Jews to Palestinian citizenship, but rejection of any right of the Jews to a national presence.
3. Beginning from the point of view that the mere fact that a man is Jewish does not give him any prerogatives or additional rights, such a those which the Zionist usurpation and the establishment of the State of Israel attempt to ensure for him. Nor does the mere fact that a man is Jewish exclude him from the practice of his rights of equality and participation which are denied him by anti-Semitism and racialist ideologies.
4. Emphasis that although the Jews have no real historical, religious or political rights as a group in Palestine, the Palestinian Democratic State must guarantee the rights of Jews as individuals among those who opt for membership in this state.
Griff & the Unicorn
SOKOLOFF
Griff & the Unicorn, Copyright, 1970,
University Daily Kansan.
Now I ask: How can a professor of philosophy interpret the above goals set forth by the Palestinian commandos by his generalization, "Israel is a nation of less than three million people surrounded by over 90 million Arabs who openly proclaim their intent to destroy Israel and all of her people?"
Fawwaz T. Ulaby Assistant Professor Electrical Engineering
- * *
To the editor:
To the students and faculty of the University of Kansas:
Sunday afternoon a deception was put over on the students and faculty of the University of Kansas. At the fourth annual photography contest, the judging was of such questionable quality as to inaccurately represent the abilities of the University's photographers.
Partly due to the mishandling and misinforming of the judges, and partly due to poor organizing of the contest itself, the judging became a one-sided exercise in tasteless baffoonyery. Because two of the three judges unfortunately assumed that the William Allen White School of Journalism sponsored only a photojournalism contest, they admittedly underplayed their opinions as art critics to accept the opinions of the third, news photographer, judge. By doing so, they effectually created a one-judge photo-circus, and as such, destroyed the validity of the contest.
It is unfortunate that, for the large number of photographers who entered pictures which did not fit the qualification of newspaper publishability, that this was the major criterion of print judging. Because of this severe limit in photographic subject matter and quality, some of the finest photos made by the University's photographers are not even on display in the Kansas Union. They were eliminated from the exhibition by the actions of one imperceptive newspaper-oriented judge.
On behalf of the many photographers whose best works were not exhibited, I apologize to the students and the faculty of the University of Kansas for not being able to put our best foot forward. Hopefully, next year will be different.
Randall B. Leffingwell
President of Kappa Alpha Mu, and co-organizer of the Fourth Annual KU Photography Contest.